3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

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3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by mpeachey » Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:53 am

Last Saturday at 3rd Ave. Nice and warm, with a lot of people, kiters, windsurfers, bikers, kids in bike seats, runners, etc., out enjoying October summer.

Not a blustery day as far as wind goes. Most people got a short light wind session and headed in. Many were left on the water as it dropped.

This event is a perfect example of why we need to be active in our policing. There is a reason we have signs posted which mention where to launch and land kites. One bonehead enables the next.
  • First, I see the German d-bag standing a the edge of the bike path about 1/3 of the way up from the rigging area to the upper launch. He's busy yelling at his girlfriend in the water. Not clear what he was saying, but got the impression he was concerned that she was going to drop his kite before she got it to him on the bike path. While his girlfriend was still a little ways out, I gently said Hi and suggested that most people at 3rd ave liked to avoid landing their kites across the bike path because of the risk it might present to other users of the waterfront area. I offered to swim out and help her self-rescue, if she needed it. His response was "I don't give a $%!# about you". I suggested that it wasn't really about me, it was more about the people on bicycles, and he reiterated his lack of concern about others in a somewhat more forceful way. He was a pretty hostile jackass, and bigger than me, so I walked off. His girlfriend landed her kite to him, with the kite and lines on the Bay side of the bike path, and except for a certain amount of waving the kite around, the risk to people on the bike path was pretty minimal.

    Next, I see bonehead number two out in the water dragging towards shore and frantically tapping on his head for a landing. Who can really blame him, it would certainly be easier to land to someone on shore than put it in the water and wind up your lines. And he did just see someone else land on the bike path. Someone (the german d-bag?) landed the kite for him, leaving it in the duck pond on the far side of the bike path with the lines running across the path. I didn't see the landing, so I'm not sure whether it was landed across the path, or just carried over there and left while the guy climbed out. Again, who can blame him. Perhaps he doesn't ride here that often and doesn't understand the risks. And, he did just see someone else doing it.

    Here's the winner. Dip-shit number three comes dragging in to shore. Nobody except non-kiters to land his kite. So, I watch from the upper launch as he self lands across the bike path. No regard at all for the people nearby, or who might be riding along on a bicycle, risk of a relaunch, or whatever. Yeah, I understand that maybe we wish the bikers would ride a little slower, and I'm sure they wish we wouldn't walk up the path with our kites. But this is just dumb. Again though, who can blame him. He just watched two other people land on the path, and was probably wondering why nobody was landing him.
Yeah, nobody got hurt. But, ...

In any event, it all starts with one d-bag.

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Re: 3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by loserdavies » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:47 am

Next time if you can get kite makes and colors it will be easy to identify and others can talk to them as well. If enough people do this it will make it a better impression. Thanks for trying

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Re: 3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by Greg » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:44 am

Sounds like a time to get three other people to line up and tell him the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN... If that didn't work I'd SLASH HIS KITE or CUT HIS LINES- (I'm willing to go to jail or whatever is needed to STOP these kinds of "PEOPLE")

Over the years- I've had to pull a few plugs and understand this kind of situation, sometimes logic simply will not work and FORCE is NEEDED!

If I'm ever around and your having trouble with someone- PLEASE ask me for back-up.

If this kind of violation is allowed- KiteBoarding will eventually be CANCELLED-
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Re: 3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by jrg » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:55 am

Here's another one from a couple of days ago - some guy comes into last chance beach, walks up the ramp and on the bike path all the way to Inkitomi beach. It was super light and that kite could have easily fallen out of the sky. He was flying a North kite with a red north race board and he often roller blades his gear from the parking lot to the upper launch. This guy has kited 3rd for a while and Im sure he knows the rules....

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Re: 3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by ramsey » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:09 am

mpeachey, If I am there and you are getting hostilities, don't hesitate to ask for reinforcements. Or just ask the crew at the lower launch and someone will talk to the guy.

Its safer for the kiter and the public for them to wind up the lines in the water. Not to mention getting your lines stuck in the rocks is an almost sure way to ruin them.

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Re: 3rd ave boneheads landing on bike path

Post by Loscocco » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:16 am

L.M.G. wrote:KiteBoarding will eventually be CANCELLED-
L.M.G.[/b]

NO!!!!!!!!!!
.. wait.. if its canceled then whatever comes next much be way more fun!
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